Oh yeah, I’m looking forward to some fresh picked homegrown sweet corn!

Thanks Tammy so far things are starting out pretty good. Now I need to go climb a silo 🤣🤣

Thank you! We could sure use it after last year. Things are looking a lot different this year on the marketing side of things too so hopefully we will be able to move all of our product as well as normal.

Yeah, ol’ Zack will spoil ya, lol. We do use some pretty fancy equipment for our 1000 acres of corn and beans but I have been pretty happy With how the 7000 does for the produce operation. Your dad sounds pretty hard-core, and really driven to plant that many acres that way, wow! In addition to millennial farmer I also enjoy watching Cole the Corn Star, Brians farming videos, my neighbor, Harmless Farmer and Sas Dutch Kid, a dairy farmer in Canada. Glad you enjoyed those trails in WNF, I need to get back down there. Thanks Dan!

Yeah, ol’ Zack will spoil ya, lol. We do use some pretty fancy equipment for our 1000 acres of corn and beans but I have been pretty happy With how the 7000 does for the produce operation. Your dad sounds pretty hard-core, and really driven to plant that many acres that way, wow! In addition to millennial farmer I also enjoy watching Cole the Corn Star, Brians farming videos, my neighbor, Harmless Farmer and Sas Dutch Kid, a dairy farmer in Canada. Glad you enjoyed those trails in WNF, I need to get back down there. Thanks Dan!

I almost bought a monosem planter a few years ago myself but figured why spend the money when the 7000 was working just fine.

@@jasonwish- I do watch every one of Cole's videos. I spent 3 summers in Iowa interning at Deere so I like seeing what the state of Iowa is up to every now and then.

@@jasonwish- it's hard to change and spend money on new equipment when what you have isn't broken and doing the job on a mid scale produce farm.

Thanks so much! Glad you learned something!

She's been a very reliable tractor ever since I've been alive! So far a decent start. Thanks Dan!

So true ! 🤣🤣🤣

I had so much fun recording that part of the video but it was a little sketchy climbing up that silo, haven’t climbed it for over 15 years LOL

Thanks! I hope to get more farming content on my channel this year.

Had a blast making that part of the video!

One of these days CG!

That variety has been around for quite a while and was very popular. The improvement in seed genetics has been amazing over the past few years: eating quality, husk quality, ear size, rows of kernels, shorter stalk height, cold soil vigor, disease resistance, the list goes on and on. Ohio does grow some great corn! Thanks!

@@jasonwish- how do you control raccoons especially with the shorter height varieties? Also are you planting GMO or conventional varieties? Thanks

Eric Conkey raccoon are definitely our biggest nemesis. My son traps 50 to 100 each winter and also another couple dozen during the corn harvest season. We put up an 8” electric fence only around our first early planting of two acres. They still get in but not as bad. After that they don’t seem to bother it as much unless it’s an exceptionally dry year. We don’t plant any GMO varieties until our final three plantings of the season due to heavy corn earworm and European corn borer pressure after Labor Day harvest.

@@jasonwish- ok just curious because anytime we used short varieties in the past the raccoons and groundhogs would just walk along and sample ears without even pulling it down. Tried a fence around it last year which did help some. Do the gmo types on the late plantings keep you from having to spray the corn and give you adequate control of worms?

@@ericconkey9580 Only the Attribute 2 trait stack and Attribute Plus Trait stack does good....the older version still get lots of worms. Our favorite variety is Patriarch for our last three plantings only. It is also tolerant to Liberty (Glufosinate), but we treat ours normally as if it isn't. As far as other varieties we only plant SH2 super sweets also known as xtra-tenders.

Dang! Totally different there in Minnesota. I’ve planted on March 30 before but it’s a little risky, second or third week of May is best for us.

@@jasonwish- crazy! March we can usually expect below zero temps and snow storms.

Lol, Unfortunately most of our corn is sold around the greater Columbus area and we don’t ever make it up to the Cleveland area just too far for us. We have an Ohio KZfaq meet up once or twice a year maybe you should try to come to the next one, it’s usually held at Mohican State Park.

I have never tried that, and I’ve never heard of anybody trying that. Not saying it wouldn’t work, but since our planter and tractor and sprayer are all set up for 30 inch rows it would be a big pain to change all that. The spacing really has no bearing on getting two ears per plant, it all has to do with the proper nutrition and water, if both are provided at the right amount at the right time, you will always get two good harvestable ears, but it is a very rare thing without supplemental irrigation and probably only happens for us on one or two plantings out of a dozen each season. As far as the population, it looks like 37,500 seeds per Hector is around 15,200 seeds per acre which is very very low. All of our rates are 18 to 23,000 per acre or 45-55,000 per ha for sweet corn. Much much higher for field corn.

Well, fortunately that sweet corn was planted 9 days ago, it’s a muddy mess here now.

I guess when I was getting started that’s what I was told to do by a couple other Ohio farmers who gave talks on their large sweetcorn operations at the Ohio produce conference many years ago. I think it’s because there’s more chance of having poor emergence in the cold soil with those early plantings so you want to plant little bit heavier so you still get a good yield but then as the season progresses and the soil warms up emergence will be near perfect and that’s when we go down to 19 or 20,000. Of course I could be wrong also... maybe I’m wasting seed and could get by starting at 19 or 20. Genetics are far superior these days for cold soil emergence that’s for sure.

@@jasonwish- That makes good sense to crank the pop up a bit if you're expecting poor germ. I'll definitely try that if its especially cold at planting this April. Thanks

Nice! We have about 15 acres planted now on five different plantings and about 10 more acres to go. Our final planting will be about July 15. Markers are definitely helpful! We will end up with about three fourths of our acres in Notill

Yes. We normallly use all generic versions of the following: Bicep 2 magnun with 20 gal of 28% nitrogen as the carrier before planting. If weeds come up later once the corn has emerged we use Impact + atrazine with drop nozzles before the corn tassles.

Not a problem for commercial seed buyers anywhere in the country fortunately. Most seed is ordered in November and December with March delivery, but even now is no problem.

No, I have been married for 23 years and have three children.